Composer Polina Nazaykinskaya is a graduate of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory College and the Yale School of Music. Currently, Polina is a Lecturer of Composition at Brooklyn College Conservatory and the GCTYO Philharmonic Orchestra conductor.
Polina’s collaborators include internationally renowned choreographers Pascal Rioult, Jonah Bokaer, and Yuri Possokhov. Polina works closely with the world’s leading conductors, such as Osmo Vänskä, Teodor Currentzis, Fabio Mastrangelo, Sarah Hicks, Toshiyuki Shimada, Lawrence Loh, and Hannu Lintu. Polina’s compositions are actively performed by internationally acclaimed soloists such as trombonist R. Douglas Wright, violinist Elena Korzhenevich, and pianist Anton Nel.
Many of Polina’s honors and awards include Charles Ives Scholarship from The American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans.